Peter Shann Ford

Peter Shann Ford is an author, former TV news anchor in Australia and the USA, bionics coder and and founder of Control Bionics Ltd., which pioneered computer communication and robotic controls using a person's own neuroelectrical signals.

He was a programmer with the VA Rehabilitation R&D Laboratory in Atlanta, developing new communications systems for veterans and civilians with severe disabilities who were unable to use a keyboard or mouse.

He researched "The Keeper of Dreams" over 10 years, verifying all First Nations stories and information used in the book with elders of the Yankunytjatjara people of the Australian central desert.

As an anchor with CNN, CNN-HLN and NBC News Channel, Ford reported from Kennedy Space Center on the Space Shuttle program, the Pentagon, The White House, The Vatican, the Persian Gulf during Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm and, after 9/11, from the Northwest Frontier of Pakistan, and operations in Afghanistan.

His next novel, on the convergence of machine technology, life extension, and tantra, is due out in 2027.